AFAIK, GEM and PDP both use Quicktime to play videos. So you'd need WMV support in quicktime, at least on OSX and Linux.

In the case of OSX, you could check to see if it's using your installed version of Quicktime or something else. There are commercial solutions to play WMV in Quicktime such as flip4mac. Maybe Jamie or one of the other OSX GEM devs can tell you more.

In the case of Linux, it depends on how you compile libquicktime. If you're running an x86/intel machine, you could investigate getting the windows codecs installed.

In the case of Windows, I have no idea. [pix_film] should decode AVIs and maybe MOVs.

I guess transcoding the offending videos into something usable isn't an option? The recommended codec fro GEM and PDP both is a Quicktime MOV with PhotoJPG compression.

good luck, d.

Joseph Barrows wrote:

hi, has anyone played .wmv files in puredata / gem ? or other graphic addons for puredata?